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    Paula Whyman

    Paula Whyman’s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Her fiction was selected for the anthology Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. She has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and The Studios of Key West, and she was a 2014 Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC, where she is working on a novel.

    Paula Whyman

    Short Story

    Loan

    Paula Whyman·
    The day after M. called me to say that he was too ill to come to dinner, that he was in pain and couldn’t get out of bed, and his voice sounded carefully starched, like he’d primed it for this one phone call—the day after that was when they told me he’d put a bag over his head and shot himself...